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Self Dumping Hoppers
Watertight, Sizes to 5 Cubic Yard Capacities Up To 6000 lbs.
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Universal Dynamics, Inc.
A full line of auxiliaries for the plastics industry.
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Chute, Hopper, Bin level.
Monitor Plugged Chute, Flow/No Flow High or Low level, no calibration.
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hop⋅per

  [hop-er]
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–noun
1. a person or thing that hops.
2. Informal. a person who travels or moves frequently from one place or situation to another (usually used in combination): a two-week tour designed for energetic city-hoppers.
3. any of various jumping insects, as grasshoppers or leafhoppers.
4. Australian. kangaroo.
5. a funnel-shaped chamber or bin in which loose material, as grain or coal, is stored temporarily, being filled through the top and dispensed through the bottom.
6. Railroads. hopper car.
7. U.S. Politics. a box into which a proposed legislative bill is dropped and thereby officially introduced.
8. one of the pieces at each side of a hopper casement.
—Idiom
9. in the hopper, Informal. in preparation; about to be realized: Plans for the class reunion are in the hopper.
Origin:
1200–50; ME; see hop 1 , -er 1
Self Dumping Hoppers
Watertight, Sizes to 5 Cubic Yard Capacities Up To 6000 lbs.
www.dcgraves.com
Universal Dynamics, Inc.
A full line of auxiliaries for the plastics industry.
www.unadyn.com

Hop⋅per

  [hop-er]
–noun
1. Edward, 1882–1967, U.S. painter and etcher.
2. Grace Murray, 1906–92, U.S. naval officer and computer scientist.
3. (William) De Wolf  [duh-woolf] , 1858–1935, U.S. actor.
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hop·per   (hŏp'ər)   
n.  

  1. One that hops.

    1. A usually funnel-shaped container in which materials, such as grain or coal, are stored in readiness for dispensation.

    2. A freight car with a door in the floor through which materials are unloaded.

    3. A box in which a bill is placed pending formal introduction before a legislature.

    4. Informal A place in which something is held in readiness: a studio with many potential blockbusters in the hopper.


[Sense 2, from the shaking or hopping motion of grain hoppers as grain passed through them to the mill.]
Hop·per   (hŏp'ər)   
American painter famous for his stark, realist style. Among his best-known works are Early Sunday Morning (1930) and Nighthawks (1942).
Hopper, Grace Murray 1906-1992.  
American mathematician and computer programmer. Noted for her development of programming languages, especially COBOL, she is credited with inventing the first compiler.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Word Origin & History

hopper 
"container with narrow opening at bottom," 1277, perhaps from hop (v.) via notion of grain juggling in a mill hopper.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Chute, Hopper, Bin level.
Monitor Plugged Chute, Flow/No Flow High or Low level, no calibration.
www.automatedsonix.com
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